In Spokesong the action takes place in Belfast during the early 1970s, and the eighty years preceding them. It is set in a Victorian bicycle shop, owned by Frank Stock, philosopher and dreamer, who believes in the regeneration of his native city through the miracle of the bicycle.

Pentecost sees four people are gathered together by an accident of fate in a Belfast working-class parlour house where, against the background of the Ulster Workers' Council Strike, they work out their relationships to each other, to the world outside, to the past.